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Journal for accession number: 0157735
Created on:                   2017-01-21 12:48:23 UTC
By:                           James Reagan, National Centers for Environmental Information

Source: The data were submitted by the International Council for the 
Exploration of the Sea (ICES) and downloaded from 
ftp://ftp.ices.dk/dist/ocean/wdca/ on 01/05/2017.

Actions: The data that were downloaded from the ICES ftp site were then
archived and processed into the World Ocean Database.

Files:
about/
This directory contains files created by NCEI staff and processing, including
'negotiable' information between NCEI staff and the data provider.

0157735_lonlat.txt - 
  Contains sample locations for these data.  Each row contains the geographical
  position where these data were collected (longitude in the left column and
  latitude in the right column, both in degrees).  NCEI may have corrected 
  geographic positions that seemed to be in error when generating this file.  
  However, NCEI did not change the original data files under the directory 
  data/0-data/.

0157735_map.jpg - 
  Sample location map generated from listing of longitude and latitude coordinates 
  in 0157735_lonlat.txt.

0-email.txt - 
  E-mail from Else Juul Green letting NCEI know that the data file is ready to 
  be downloaded from ICES ftp site.

data/0-data/
This directory contains the data files as acquired by NCEI.

The file ICES_data_format.pdf describes the format of the data files
and was copied from the ICES website: http://ocean.ices.dk/Formats/IOF.aspx
on 10/16/2018.
Data files with .ctd or .CTD extension contains CTD data.
Data files with .ice or .ICE extension contains bottle data.
The file 'sub.txt' contains additional metadata for each data file.
